aq in the sensitive conditions now governing in Iraqi Kurdistan? Isn’t it the time for the Iraqi Kurdistan to join the Iraqi government as a part of a united Iraqi government, like other parts which are governed by Baghdad, as a counterstrategy to plots for disintegration of Iraq? In Kurdistan,...

Tens of thousands of people rallied in U.S. cities and at airports on Sunday to voice outrage over President Donald Trump's executive order restricting entry into the country for travelers from seven Muslim-majority nations. In New York, Washington and Boston, a second wave of demonstrations followed ...

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has accused Washington of constructing permanent arms depots in his country, in a move which he said will disrupt regional security. "They're unloading arms in the Philippines now ... I'm serving notice to the armed forces of the United States. Do not do it,...

Six people have been killed in a shooting attack on a mosque in Canada’s Quebec, according to police, who have arrested two suspects in the case. Assailants opened fire at people inside the mosque, known as the Islamic Cultural Center of Quebec, during evening prayers at ۲۰:۰۰ local time on Sunday ...

President Donald Trump says his executive order banning people from seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the United States “is not about religion,” amid protests and backlash in the country and around the world. "America is a proud nation of immigrants and we will continue to show ...

Iran welcomes Russian participation in the $۲.۵ billion construction of a pipeline to transfer Iranian gas to Europe, a deputy oil minister says. IGAT-۹ is a ۳۵ billion cubic meter per year pipeline that Iran plans to use to send gas from its giant South Pars field to Europe via Turkey. Russian companies ...

Turkey has sacked a deputy head of the TMSF state fund and sealed off two local television stations as Ankara intensifies a crackdown following a failed coup attempt last year. Reuters cited the Official Gazette, the Turkish government’s official journal, as saying that the dismissal of Zulfukar ...

China does not want world leadership but could be forced to assume that role if others step back from that position, a senior Chinese diplomat said on Monday, after U.S. President Donald Trump pledged to put "America first" in his first speech. Zhang Jun, director general of the Chinese Foreign ...

The White House vowed on Sunday to fight the news media "tooth and nail" over what it sees as unfair attacks, with a top adviser saying the Trump administration had presented "alternative facts" to counter low inauguration crowd estimates. On his first full day as president, Trump ...

A group including former White House ethics attorneys will file a lawsuit on Monday accusing President Donald Trump of allowing his businesses to accept payments from foreign governments, in violation of the U.S. Constitution. The lawsuit, brought by the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington,...

Zarif urged António Guterres to engage actively with the Government of Myanmar and take basic steps to end the serious concerns of international community over the situation of Rohingya Muslims. The full text of his letter to the UN chief follows: I would like to draw your kind attention to an ...

An Iraq war veteran took a gun out of his checked luggage and opened fire in a crowded baggage claim area at Fort Lauderdale's airport on Friday, killing five people, months after he showed up at an FBI office behaving erratically. Esteban Santiago, ۲۶, who was taken into custody immediately following ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered an effort to help Republican Donald Trump's electoral chances by discrediting Democrat Hillary Clinton in the ۲۰۱۶ presidential campaign, U.S. intelligence agencies said in an assessment on Friday. Russia's objectives were to undermine public faith in the U.S....

The US military has begun the deployment of hundreds of combat vehicles such as tanks as well as artillery guns along with ۳,۵۰۰ troops to Germany in an alleged bid to boost NATO’s deterrence force against Russia in Eastern Europe. US warships started unloading the military hardware, which includes ...

More than a dozen European countries have expressed willingness to engage in dialog with Russia toward reaching an arms control deal, potentially upsetting planned US-led military build-ups near Russian borders. Germany and ۱۵ other countries are pressing for the arms control deal with Russia, German ...

The UK workforce faces the worst period for wages in at least ۷۰ years as the British referendum to exit the European Union lowers real income and living standards, a new report has warned. Britons would earn less in real wages in ۲۰۲۱ than they did in ۲۰۰۸, according to a report by the Institute for ...

The UK workforce faces the worst period for wages in at least ۷۰ years as the British referendum to exit the European Union lowers real income and living standards, a new report has warned. Britons would earn less in real wages in ۲۰۲۱ than they did in ۲۰۰۸, according to a report by the Institute for ...

A suicide truck bomb killed about ۱۰۰ people, most of them Iranian Shi'ite pilgrims, at a petrol station in the city of Hilla ۱۰۰ km (۶۲ miles) south of Baghdad on Thursday, police and medical sources said. Islamic State, the ultra hard-line Sunni militant group that considers all Shi'ites to be apostates,...

A Donald Trump presidency does not mean the United States will withdraw from the South China Sea, but rather will continue pursuing "regional hegemony", Chinese academics who drafted a report for an influential government think tank said on Friday. Ensuring "absolute control" over ...